![]() ![]() London’s Cartoon Museum’s exhibition, V for Vendetta: Behind the Mask, opening tomorrow, Tuesday 18th May 2021, caters for both entry points, containing as it does both original black and white artwork, and the coloured acetates that David Lloyd, working with colourists the work of Steve Whitaker and Siobhan Dodds, subsequently produced for US publisher DC Comics, famously the publishers of Batman and Superman titles, who persuaded Alan Moore and Lloyd to let them give V for Vendetta a new home, initially as a ten-issue maxi series in 1988. If you’ve only ever read the collected edition, with its iconic mask cover, a symbol since adopted by many of protest, including campaigners Anonymous, then you’ll only be familiar with the colour version of the art. If you read the episodes of V for Vendetta published in, say, Warrior, then you will have seen David Lloyd’s black and white artwork before. I may only have read the story once, but I was blown away by it at the time, and would recommend it to anyone out there who hasn’t read it at all – even if they’re not a regular comics fan or reader. However, when I do finally get the time, it will be V for Vendetta that’s at the top of my re-reading pile – a long way ahead of Watchmen, I must add. In fact, the reason for only having read them once, so far, is that there are always so many other comics to read… I just never seem to have the time to start re-reading stuff, too! I’ve only read Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s V for Vendetta once, just as I’ve only read Watchmen, by Alan and Dave Gibbons, once – which some might consider a pretty poor batting average for a comics fan like me. Comic Projects: The Really Heavy GreatcoatĬonfession time.Comics Projects: Return to Planet Earth.Starblazer Checklist: Starblazer Abroad.Starblazer Recalled: Forgotten Fantasy Fiction – With Pictures.British Comic Reference | British Comic Characters Profiled | Garth.Marvel UK | “Genesis ’92”: Looking Back and What Might Have Been.Marvel UK in Print: Captain Britain, Death’s Head, Doctor Who and more – A Quick Guide.Action – The Sevenpenny Nightmare – Micro Site.British and Irish Creators and Publishers on Twitter. ![]() British Classic Comics and Creators on Facebook. ![]() British Comics Sales Figures: The Good Old Days.British News Stand Comics and Magazines for Teens, Pre-Teens and Children.Why Your Favourite British Comic Strip of 1974 Hasn’t Been Reprinted – Yet!.Lakes Festival Focus – Comic Creator Interviews.Roy of the Rovers – Rebellion Books Check List.2023 2000AD, Treasury of British Collections and Specials.With a cost of $90, the Alan Moore Storytelling course from BBC Maestro is available now. ![]() These and dozens of other things are what I hope to be teaching you in this course.”Ĭheck out the course notes pages for Lesson 18, “Extreme Character,” below. You will have to learn about character, stories and landscapes, how to present place and period, how to inspire your imagination and then order it into a coherent plot. It’s thirty or forty separate subjects all in one horrifying collision. “Storytelling, and writing, is not one discipline. In the announcement for the BBC Maestro course, Moore described the various aspects that go into becoming a good storyteller: Lesson 18, “Extreme Character,” is described as “How to make fantastical, impossible, detestable, reprehensible characters realistic and relatable.” If there’s anything that sounds like it’s right in the wheelhouse of Alan Moore, the co-creator of seminal graphic novels including Watchmen, V For Vendetta, and From Hell, it’s extreme characters. Moore explores last line reveals, how wordplay can spark synapses, both timing and time travel, and the all-important question of who would win in a fight between Hemingway and Baudelaire. Spanning over 6 hours, Storytelling explores the irresistible idea that writing is for everyone and, as Moore notes, “not just for me and people with my amazing haircut.” Advice on how to read with an analytical eye and develop a unique worldview quickly builds and grows into a sprawling celebration of everything storytelling has to offer. ![]()
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